World Bee Day 2023 – Bee Part Of It!
Bee involved!
Bees and another pollinators are essential to our survival. They are essential to both international and agricultural development by maintaining our food supply, supporting biodiversity, and providing different ecosystem services which all help to preserve ecosystems.
Over 20,000 different species of bees and numerous butterfly species are among the vast majority of exotic pollinators, such as insects, bats, birds, and others. Bees, pollinators, and numerous other insects are, sadly, declining in diversity and abundance. Most of the factors leading to this decline are primarily human-induced.
The 20 May World Bee Day celebration offers a chance to urge international cooperation and solidarity to ensure that we prioritize safeguarding bees and another pollinators and reducing threats. Preserving biodiversity, agricultural livelihoods, and the environment sustainability are at stake!
Additionally, World Bee Day is an occasion to highlight the contributions that everyone can make to support, revitalize, and improve the role of pollinators. The goal of World Bee Day 2023 is to increase public awareness of the significance of using pollinator-friendly agrarian production techniques.
Bees and other pollinators are essential for ecosystem health and food security. Pollinators face serious risks from extensive mono culture production and poor use of pesticides.
High-level guests, beekeeping practitioners, governments, policymakers, private sector, non-governmental organizations, civil society, research and academia, donors, and the general public from across regions will all participate in the celebrations, which will take the form of a global outreach campaign and big hybrid event.
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It's time to reevaluate our relationships with bees and take steps to protect the lives they provide
Because safeguarding these animals is essential to maintaining good communities, producing the food we eat, and ensuring our own security, we should all respect bees and other pollinators for their hard work and efforts and take part in global solidarity efforts whenever possible.
Governments must deal with the disastrous effects that unsustainable agricultural practices have on populations of bees and pollinators, as well as their capacity to provide ecosystem services and products. By establishing policies, rules, and standards to control pest control and pesticide use and guard pollinators, ministries can help the promotion of agricultural production that is pollinator -friendly.
By taking pollen heath and costs into account when making business decisions related to biodiversity loss and by reducing the use of pesticides, private sector businesses may play a major role in promoting agricultural production that is environmentally friendly. Additionally, they can improve the conservation of agrarian production and meet the rising demand for sustainable and socially responsible products through supply chain transparency, investments in research and development, engagement with farmers, and cooperation with governments and non-governmental businesses (NGOs).
By advocating for policies and practices that support pollinator health as well as building capacity, monitoring, reporting, and facilitating dialogue and mediation between farmers, beekeepers and other actors, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a crucial role in promoting agricultural production that is pest-friendly CSOs have the chance to better support the functions of bees and pollinators in their work by pointing out the strong link between improved food security, livelihoods, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and agricultural practices that are sustainable and environmentally responsible.
Researchers, the scientific community, farmers and ranchers, as well as indigenous and local information holders, can collaborate to improve pollen monitoring research, make decisions and take actions that are in the pollinates' best interests, implement field and landscape-level pollinator protection mechanisms, and lessen the harmful effects.
Urban dwellers and industrial beekeepers can encourage initiatives in industrial and peri-urban areas to improve pollen habitat, increase flowering diversity, and improve people-pollinators' relationships by educating the public about the value of honeybees on a daily basis..
Through the decisions they make in their everyday lives, consumers also have a part to play in promoting sustainable growth. They can defend pollinators and protect the obvious advantages they bring by purchasing organic and locally grown produce, supporting pollen-friendly labels, reducing food waste, and planting pollinate-friendlier gardens.
Fascinating bee and pollinator facts:
- The vast majority of pollen types are wild, with more than 20,000 varieties of bees.
- Bees, birds, and bats, contribute to 35% of the world's complete produce production, with 87 of 115 leading food crops in the world.
- 10% of the overall economical activity agricultural output's price for animal food depends on flowering by insects.
- Nearly 75% of all plants worldwide making edible fruit or seedlings rely on bees, at least in part.
- Pollination makes it possible to sustain the diversity of a variety of healthy fruits, nuts and fruit types.
- The worrying reduction in bee populations and pollinators can be found in many places, attributed to a variety of elements, like illegal use of pesticides and biodiversity damage.
How to help
Engage your community in one of the following activities or promote it!
Bees are essential to preserving habitat health and food safety, so pro-bono marketing is a great way to increase the impact of World Bee Day yet after May 20. To show the World Bee Day notice, get in touch with local governments, outside advertisers, travel companies, such as city tube, buses or trains, shopping centers, theaters, or airports right away.
Start a program in a neighborhood or college garden to educate young people about the advantages of pollinators and what good habitats look like for them. Learning how to safeguard pollinators through ecosystem-friendly methods (flower diversity, integrated pest management) benefits the environment and improves food safety.
Set up a World Bee Day event
Despite the difficult situation surrounding World Bee Day 2023, you can also call for action and significantly improve the world. Consider a novel approach by taking into account various activities or novel formats for occasions, either by going online or adhering to any bodily distance restrictions when necessary. Online versions of some events, like sections, public lectures, or even a survey day, might be just as successful.
Before May 20, add the World Bee Day button to your website to commemorate the occasion and encourage discussion of bees and other pollinators. A visual, like the button, is a great way to support the cause and raise awareness of the day.
Honey tasting
Why not plan a honey tasting session with your friends and family to commemorate World Bee Day? Can you identify the bee that made the honey? Which do you prefer? Unable to meet in person ? – no worries, you can even find online honey tasting sessions online!
Parks and gardens
If you enjoy a walk in the park or backyard, why not make your local area or city conscious of World Bee Day? Many of the plants and trees in the wonderful parks and gardens across the world exist thanks to our bees.
Increase your knowledge
Need to find out more about honeybees, and pollinators?
Then why not visit the home of FAO's Global Action on Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture, where you'll discover all sorts of assets, including movies, magazines, data and information about major initiatives related to bees and pollinators.
Apimonida.org is also a great source of information about apitherapy, bee health, biology, economy, pollination and flora, rural development, and related technology.
Furthermore, some videos are full of amazing information about bees such as this one:
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Spread the word
Tell, educate and employ people with real facts. Join the #WorldBeeDay campaign by posting free material on digital channels. Recognize and engage with local and national digital influencers in the food and growth sector (bloggers, actors, famous public figures, photographers and professionals) to spread the word around green beekeeping.
Protecting pollinators such as bees is one of the fundamental actions needed for agroecological transitions and sustainable agriculture.